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I adopted a cute lil' death fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!

*Ahem* Apologies for the previous journal entry, I must admit it was probably more than a little confusing for everyone minus one person in particular. Please forgive me, but any inquiries made through comments or notes won't be answered. It's in the past, the journal was a spontaneous implosion of my heart and head, and nothing more will be said of it. Kthxbai.

In other news, I missed my chance to go to a devmeet in Hamilton, where I currently live, which was organized by ^superkev and his friendly-friends. I would've hitched a ride with long time friend =thegnat and another person by the name of `sodalicious. But meh, to be honest, I had a better time staying at home and talking to =Nex9k9 all day, plus =traos on msn. Enjoyable, quite .

I do have some.. bad news.. at least for me. It seems that real-time chat is very difficult for me to participate in, when it comes to dAmn. So, unfortunately for the time being, I'll have to be grounded to msn and other lame IM messengers (no, not AIM) to get by the weeks before i can be home on the weekends to hop along happily in my most frequented rooms. Sorry folks.

I am, however, feeling rather jovial which is a great and pleasurable change from the past few days. Please don't ask about it, I would rather not have to ignore your comments . I remember in the past when I would post journals that would evoke thought and discussion, and I miss doing that. Many of you might remember journals posted on love, and the ideologies behind God and the universe. I miss those days, but it seemed that while i was away from school (during the summer), i lost interesting things to discuss. Let's hope that now with my intellectually creative juices flowing, i can once more post journals with some kind of stimuli. It seems too often nowadays, people strike for the easy way out, and don't bother using their brains.

What's happened to the idea of "original thought." I mean, seriously consider society today and the changes it has presented on the collective rectum that *is* the public. Consider why certain things grab your attention. There are various elements that can be blamed for lack of understanding within community, and in person. The truth is, first impressions stick whether or not we'd like to believe it.

Certain things pop out at individuals, things such as:

intensity (brightly/colourfully dressed people)
repetition (obnoxiously annoying people)
contrast to behaviour (A normally happy person suddenly being grumpy)
motives (this relies more heavily on individual experience rather than external stimulation, but it still appplies)

Why does society, and the people within it, label one another? Is it for the simple fact that organization has been embedded into our genetics and we prefer class and order? That doesn't make sense though, because the sloppiest, messiest people tend to be the most arrogant about political and social movements, they're either too absored with themselves to care what anyone else thinks, or too complexly emotional to go back to the basics of happiness versus sadness.

All the issues can be laid out and numbered, but I think the real problem lies in the fact that reality is based, as I've said in the past, on experiences. And language, words, everything that revolves around physical communication, is based on the meaning we assign to each word. What is meaning based on? Meaning, my friends, is based on the beauitful thing we call experience. So, we can conclude that experience is untouchable, and if this is true, then we can also conclude that words are untouchable, and the *real* meaning never truly known.

So what does this have to do with first impressions and generalizations of people and society? If only we could get past the idea that these are nothing but ideas, then we has a faunal could actively engage in perhaps... more socially conducted things. Rather than believing hearsay from a friend that your neighbour is up to no good, one could instead formulate opinions over a period of bonding time, in which the actions and potentials of that person could be assessed according to the observers standards. Ahh, the power of suggestion. Never ceases to amaze me.

Err, I just realized how long this is. Sorry guys, for those who actually read it >_0. I guess this is my first spark of discussion for the month! Enjoy

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